The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-06-05
ABOUT WOMEN.

left $23 0C0 to Dartmouth College.
Kate Sanborn, the well known writer
and Dewspaper correspondent, is niece
of ID mel Webster.
Mrs Mary A. Tacott, of Chicago.
civ $1,000 to he Humane Society of
that city every year.
Her general health must be watched
over rs carefully as her voice She must
eat nourishing food. take plenty of
exercise, and get nine hours sleep.
DR. Mary E, Bates. regarded as one of
the best surgeons in Chicago, was the first
woman to graduate from medical COL
lege in that city. she has large prac-
tice.
The women Of New York have been
granted more patents than their sisters IN
any other State. The women of Massa-
chusetts, Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin
rank next in order
Florence Nightingale has published az
appeal to the women of England 10 help
in providing a central home and adequate
organization for tue Women,s Protective
and Proyident League.
Mrs. Helen Campbell, since her "Pris-
oDers of Poverty" called attention to the
sufferings of the poor sewing women, has
received hundreds of applications from
people who want seamstresses.
The town councils Of twenty Scotch
towns have this year petitioned Paria-
ment to grant suffrage to women. Among
them are Edinburgh, Dunfermline, Dunn
tries, Dunbar, Linllthgow and Sterling.
Mrs. Annie BOYD, of Grand Rapids.
Mich, has recovered SO 500 Damages
from a rumseller, Christopher Post, who
sold her husband liquor, under the in
fiuence of which he killed a man and was
sentenced TO prison for life.
Miss Francis Helen Colenso who hes
lately died, was da ghter of Bishop
Colenso, and joint author with Colonel
Ed ward Dunn ford of the " History of the
Zulu War" She contributed the politi-
cal chapters, and he the military narrative
A bill granting munieipal suffrage to
single women and widaws in Copenhagen
passed the Danish Folkething equivalent
TO our House of Representatives by
vote of flfly-onc TO sixteen. but tie com
mittee of the Upper House has reported.
adversely, four to one.
Lady Harberton lately gave lecture on
dress reform, to ladies DOLLY, in the Chrys-
tai Palace. The room was crowded, and
lady who attended as an agent of Worth,
the great Paris dressmaker expressed her
self much pleased with the costume in
vented by Lady Harberton,
Miss Leila J. Robinson, of the Suffolk
Co. (Masy) bar, thinks the West offers
better opportunities than the East 10 a
woman lawyer, and that the further West
one goes, the more favorable the con-
diticns become. Oregon and Washington
Territory she thinks the best field of all.
Clara Louise kellogg says that an Ameri-
can girl need not study abroad to become
professional singer. but can learn in his
county, if she win work hard, give up
most of the pleasures young people prize,
study dramatic action as well as singing,
and give her whole time 10 preparation
Mrs Martha j. Lamb, editor of the
Magazine of American History is a
member of thirteen learned societies. a
life-member of the American Historical
Society, and Fellow o. the Clarendon
Historical Society of Edinburgh. She is
said to be very modest and unassuming
little woman.
Mrs. Ernest Hart has done so much to
help the suffering Donegal peasantry by
a system of cottage industries. Glove
knitting, crocEeting, and embroidery give
May poor Irish women a chance to earn
few shillings to help the family fund.
Mrs. Hart is also trying to revive the lace
making industry in ireland.
A woman who, six years ago, knew
nothing of business, now makes the only
blankets in the country that can compete
with those of the famous Mission Mills,
in California. She has q small mill run
by water-power up in Vermont, and sue
experimental in her own kitchen MIXING
the dyes until she got the exact shades.
Her blankets now can hardly be dis
tinguished from those of the Mission
Mills, and her little mill is kept running
day and hight to fill her heavy orders.
"Well, how has trade been this last win
ter?" he asked of merchant in Wiscon-
sin village. Fair, sir, very fair" ''Then
the dull times have not effected you?
''Not bit. One of my clerks stole thirty
yards of silk and paid me 81, 800 to settle,
and another gobblel S139 in cash and
turned over house and lot worth 50 900 TO
keep out of court. Times are all right,
sir, perfectly right"